What is the majority world? In this series of short videos, the Lausanne Movement defines key missional terms in an easy-to-understand way. Desmond Henry, the Lausanne catalyst for proclamation evangelism, defines the term “majority world” and argues for its usage instead of the term “third world.” The term “majority world” echoes a paradigm shift in Christianity that has happened over the past century.
In the past, missionary sending was largely mono-directional. This means these countries in the majority world received missionaries from the West, but were not sending missionaries to other countries. In the past hundred years, we have seen a shift from monodirectional mission sending to polycentric mission sending showcasing the important contribution of the majority world in global missions.
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What is the Majority World? on the Lausanne Movement website.
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